sheldoan
Re:Exercise 'keeps the mind sharp' in over-50s, study finds
on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:55AM (#14191829)
yep. the biological term is "spandrel"
Re:Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @02:40AM (#13928891)
Interesting, this is the same argument made by social theorist Evengy Morozov: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/data-p...
Re:Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds
on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:52PM (#13815350)
'Spandrel' is the technical term for a feature that is the byproduct of some other evolutionary adaptation
Re:Once mocked, Facebook’s $1B acquisition of Instagram was a good move
on Saturday December 31, 2016 @07:26PM (#13294008)
Facebook had a great deal of insight into Instagram's growth due to Facebook Connect. They could see internally how many people were signing up for Instagram, how many people from their networks they were inviting and connecting with, and other indicators of activity.
Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?
on Sunday December 25, 2016 @10:08PM (#13256713)
Link for the lazy https://www.tradingschools.org/reviews/fractal-alerts/
Re:G is for Google
on Monday August 10, 2015 @05:11PM (#10037381)
Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube
Re:Secret State of North Korea [video]
on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @10:25PM (#7067892)
Try using Hola Unblocker, a handy Chrome/Firefox extension that allows you to get around regional blocks
Re:Google to Acquire Nest
on Monday January 13, 2014 @04:44PM (#7053635)
YouTube
Re:Female Founders
on Friday January 10, 2014 @05:36PM (#7040106)
Done, thanks
Re:Female Founders
on Friday January 10, 2014 @05:06PM (#7039866)
Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)
on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:03PM (#6828987)
Snapchat (Venice, CA)
Feel free to drop me a line at sheldon-at-snapchat-dot-com. We're mainly looking to hire full time engineers with experience / expertise in any of the following:
- Mobile client development (iOS & Android)
- Backend / infrastructure
- Statistics / machine learning / massive data sets
New college grads welcome. Sorry no H1Bs or remote
Re:The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users
on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @04:48AM (#6011713)
Facebook uses a fan-out-on-read approach
http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/Did-Facebook-devel...
Re:The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users
on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @04:42AM (#6011701)
Not a link to the full paper, but a summary is presented here: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/1/17/paper-feeding-fren...
Re:The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users
on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @04:38AM (#6011686)
In addition, the Redis config file allows you to specify an eviction policy when the maximum memory limit is reached:
# volatile-lru -> remove the key with an expire set using an LRU algorithm
# allkeys-lru -> remove any key accordingly to the LRU algorithm
# volatile-random -> remove a random key with an expire set
# allkeys-random -> remove a random key, any key
# volatile-ttl -> remove the key with the nearest expire time (minor TTL)
# noeviction -> don't expire at all, just return an error on write operations
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)
on Friday March 01, 2013 @03:36PM (#5306797)
Snapchat (Venice, Los Angeles)
Hiring software engineers. H1Bs welcome
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>60+ million photos shared a day
>Amazing beach house office on the Venice boardwalk
>Small team (5 engineers), and a bigger user to engineer ratio than Facebook
>Potential for leadership, especially for experienced developers
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Drop me a line at [email protected]!